String and Condition

noun

• A lightweight cord.
  • synonyms: twine
• Stringed instruments that are played with a bow.
  • usage: "the strings played superlatively well"
  • synonyms: bowed stringed instrument
• A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
• A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.
  • usage: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
  • synonyms: train
• A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases. )
• A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening.
  • usage: "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
  • synonyms: drawstring, drawing string
• A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod. )
• Cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.
  • synonyms: cosmic string
• A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
• A necklace made by a stringing objects together.
  • usage: "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
  • synonyms: chain, strand

verb

• Thread on or as if on a string.
  • usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
  • synonyms: thread, draw
• Add as if on a string.
  • usage: "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
  • synonyms: string up
• Move or come along.
  • synonyms: string along
• Stretch out or arrange like a string.
• String together; tie or fasten with a string.
  • usage: "string the package"
• Remove the stringy parts of.
  • usage: "string beans"
• Provide with strings.
  • usage: "string my guitar"

• (n.) A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
• (n.) Act of stringing for break.
• (n.) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line.
• (n.) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
• (v.t.) To hoax; josh; jolly.
• (v.i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched or people who are moving along, etc.
• (n.) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
• (n.) The line or cord of a bow.
• (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
• (v.t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
• (n.) The points made in a game.
• (n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
• (v.t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
• (n.) Same as Stringcourse.
• (n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
• (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
• (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
• (v.t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
• (v.t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
• (n.) A small cord, a line, a twine or a slender strip of leather or other substance, used for binding together, fastening or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
• (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
• (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
• (v.t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
• (n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

noun

• A state at a particular time.
  • usage: "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
  • synonyms: status
• An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else.
  • synonyms: precondition, stipulation
• A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing.
  • usage: "the human condition"
• Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision.
  • usage: "another consideration is the time it would take"
  • synonyms: circumstance, consideration
• The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape'.
  • synonyms: shape
• An illness, disease, or other medical problem.
  • usage: "a heart condition"; "a skin condition"
• Usually plural. ( a statement of what is required as part of an agreement)
  • usage: "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
  • synonyms: term
• The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition.
  • synonyms: experimental condition

verb

• Establish a conditioned response.
• Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.
  • usage: "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained"
  • synonyms: discipline, train, check
• Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.
  • usage: "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
  • synonyms: stipulate, qualify, specify
• Put into a better state.
  • usage: "he conditions old cars"
• Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny.
  • usage: "I condition my hair after washing it"

• (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
• (n.) Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
• (n.) To invest with or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
• (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• (n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
• (v.i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
• (n.) A clause in a contract or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.
• (n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
• (v.i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
• (n.) That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
• (n.) train; acclimate.

(DoD) Those variables of an operational environment or situation in which a unit, system, or individual is expected to operate and may affect performance. See also joint mission-essential tasks.